At the lecture, we will walk through a broader presentation of artistic practice, the award-winning and internationally acclaimed artist Maja Smrekar.
Maja Smrekar has a master’s degree in art, a researcher of social change that arises through the use of new technologies. Sensitivity, alienation and vulnerability of an individual who has difficulty following daily changing circumstances are contents, addresses with projects in which he problematizes digital aesthetics, invasiveness of communication technologies, cybernetics, bionics, synthetic biology, design of living organisms, etc .. Maja’s art studio is biotechnological a laboratory where, in collaboration with scientists and technologists, works of art are created that thematize the coexistence of man, animals and machines.
In 2017, she received the Golden Nik Award in the category of hybrid art for the K-9_topology project at the Ars Electronica festival, and in 2018 she was awarded the Prešeren Fund Award for the same project.